Well, we're coming to the end of another year once again, and when speaking about Massive Attack in 2014, besides the tour this Summer there hasn't been an awful lot from the band in terms of new music. Sure we had the Battle Box 003 remix in March but since then things have been decidedly quiet, with Massive Attack presumably hard at work on the mooted LP6. So, it comes as a nice surprise that a sizable amount of new music has quite unexpectedly been dumped in our laps at year's end.

Where the source of this music comes form is also something that no one could have predicted. 3D from Massive Attack has taken the rather unconventional tactic of donating roughly an hour's worth of instrumental electronic music (along with the stems for said tracks) to the Game Jam site "Ludum Dare". Ludum Dare, which I forgive I was unaware of until now is a website and community centered around an "Accelerated Game Development" event known as Game Jam.

In their own words "developers from around the world spend a weekend creating games based on a theme suggested by the community. Ludum Dare events take place every April, August and December". The new music 3D provided for this Game Jam event will be used by the developers in the soundtracks to the games that the developers make. The stems will be used to make their own remixed soundtracks for the games.

The 10 tracks themselves are all arbitrarily titled with seemingly random letters except the impenetrably named final track "The Shovel". I also presume that Euan Dickinson probably assisted 3D in the production of these tracks. Euan is the new producer in Massive Attack since Neil Davidge left in 2010.

Not much else I can add on this to this story for now. Give the music a listen and let me know what you think in the comments section down below.

Embedded at the top of this post is a new documentary entitled "Where Do You Draw The Line?" from WordSmith Productions who have generously uploaded the entire hour long documentary to Vimeo for free as of today.

We're roughly halfway through Massive Attack's 2016 tour, which has just finished its UK leg before hitting the rest of Europe, so its about time for a news update post covering all that's been going on in the last couple of weeks.

Close to two years after first getting word of this project, (check out this blog post of the initial announcement in May 2013), the end result of the unique but maybe not altogether surprising pairing of Del Naja and Yorke was just released online as a free stream via Soundcloud.